Nostr notes by Ryan Barrett

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2026-10-20T14:21:50Z

separate the art from the artist

2026-10-08T18:21:08Z

separate the art from the artist

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. [Since ...

2026-10-02T02:26:47Z

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. [Since last time](https://snarfed.org/2026-08-11_57480 ), we’ve been focusing on a big new project that we’re almost ready to start beta testing, but we also managed to ship some smaller features and improvements:

<li>From the Atmosphere:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2658">Support posts with link embed but no text</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1293">Improve account deactivation/delete handling</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2686">Fix missed profile updates when you make more than one in a row</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>To the Atmosphere: <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1597">link previews for bsky.app links</a></li>
<li>From the fediverse: <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2302">handle pinned posts in paged collections</a></li>
<li>To the fediverse:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/1248">Serve real outboxes again</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2154">Speed up delivery for accounts with many followers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2675">Preserve line breaks in profile bios</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>From the web: <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2525">ask for confirmation before bridging</a></li>
<li>DM notifications:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2481">Notify you of responses to replies you send from the web UI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2444">Show original posts from Atmosphere users who are only visible to logged in users</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Internal:
<ul>
<li>Security: more hardening <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/webutil/issues/11">against SSRF</a>, <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/granary/issues/586">XSS</a>;, and CSRF attacks</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2681">Add a load balancer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/arroba/issues/80">Faster <code>listRepos</code></a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/arroba/issues/87">Real <code>collections</code> in <code>describeRepo</code></a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/arroba/issues/94">Improve firehose reliability</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2668">Switch “Bluesky” to “Atmosphere” in docs, UI, etc</a></li>

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and [bug reports](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues ), and [please support us on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial )! You can follow the [*now* label on GitHub](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Anow ) to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

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2026-09-30T15:54:02Z

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2026-09-27T04:10:10Z

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2026-09-18T04:03:49Z

[Huge.](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time )

bonus points: find the intruder

2026-09-05T19:23:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…wmqv
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bonus points: find the intruder

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2026-09-05T19:18:11Z

office

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Apologies all, we had a bit of downtime this morning due to a ...

2026-09-01T17:39:17Z

Apologies all, we had a bit of downtime this morning due to a network partition at our host. Bridging out of the Atmosphere (Bluesky) was down for roughly 1h, 7:45-8:45a PT (14:45-15:45 UTC), and bridging into the Atmosphere was also down for roughly 1h, 8:25-9:25a PT (15:25-16:25 UTC).

Sorry for the outage. We have a couple concrete plans for how we can improve our fault tolerance and resilience to network partitions and issues like this in the future. Thank you for your patience with us!

boiling is the worst way to cook food this includes bagels, ...

2026-08-31T23:50:11Z

boiling is the worst way to cook food

this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot

pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it

I will not be taking questions at this time

at 44 years of age I am just now realizing that my favorite food ...

2026-08-29T02:07:53Z

at 44 years of age I am just now realizing that my favorite food is fat

oh man, sorry about that! I really need to do a sweep and ...

2026-08-20T05:51:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…lk9w
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oh man, sorry about that! I really need to do a sweep and sanitize any real world examples like that in my projects

High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and ...

2026-08-18T18:49:34Z

High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they’re good for progress on the climate crisis.

I’m optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc will help both sides of this tradeoff.

Ideally gas and oil prices should increase due to price on carbon regulations, not just macro events like wars or inflation, but I’ll take what I can get.

Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the ...

2026-08-16T16:39:06Z

Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code.

If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total.

(Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.)

I’m not really proud of this, or embarrassed. Just wanted to put it out there for anyone who thinks more code is better, or worse, or an important metric either way.

All code is liability. Results are what matters. Write code to do what you need to do, try to minimize it in general, but don’t over-index on it. Focus on results.

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2026-08-16T16:26:18Z

office

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Seen at [Finnegan's Wake](http://www.finneganssf.com/ ), Cole ...

2026-08-13T16:31:31Z

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Seen at [Finnegan's Wake](http://www.finneganssf.com/ ), Cole Valley, SF. Marked *Canterbury Posters.* Haven't found a source online yet.

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2026-08-13T16:25:36Z

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve ...

2026-08-11T23:39:31Z

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been hard at work on upcoming projects [since last time](https://snarfed.org/2026-06-17_57325 ), but we’ve also found time to work on smaller features and bug fixes. Here are a few we’ve shipped recently:

<li>In DM notifications for unbridged replies, <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2541">show the reply and who wrote it</a></li>
<li>Improve <a href="https://fed.brid.gy/docs#migration">migrating</a>; and <a href="https://bounce.anew.social/">Bouncing</a>; to the Atmosphere, and <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2611">update your bridged handle</a></li>
<li>Worked with <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bad-example.com">Phil</a>; (thank you!) to <a href="https://updates.microcosm.blue/3msgfry4zt227">serve ATProto repo downloads on the cheap</a></li>
<li>Fedi => Atmosphere:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2586">Bug fix for posts with over four images</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2523">Fix duplicate posts</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Atmosphere => Fedi:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2530">Bug fix for unlinked/trailing hashtags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2521">Fix duplicated quote post links</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Web:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2576">Fix author handle on some webmentions from the Atmosphere</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2507">Improve reliability of post edits</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and [bug reports](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues ), and [please support us on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/c/ANewSocial )! You can follow the [*now* label on GitHub](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Anow ) to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

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2026-08-07T13:56:03Z

[](https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2026/ )

Surprising but true: [in 2025, *all* net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean](https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2026/ ), ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind.

It was actually over 100% total. We added 849 TWh of generation overall in 2025, an increase of 4.5%, but GHG emitting (ie fossil fuel) generation shrank by 0.2%. Clean energy covered the gap and then some.

Even more surprising: this was true for China and India individually too. All of their net new generation added in 2025, and more, was non-emitting.

China’s overall generation grew by 5%, but its fossil fuel output fell 0.9%. Its electricity emissions have been flat for two years now. India’s generation grew 2.4%; its fossil generation fell 3.3%!

There’s plenty of bad news on the climate crisis. There’s lots of fear-mongering on energy etc, as always. But there’s more good news, and progress, than we realize.

Hey, sorry for the trouble! Here's the raw content of that ...

2026-08-06T22:36:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…0pqe
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Hey, sorry for the trouble!

Here's the raw content of that post: https://browser.pub/https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/117049521011751930 . Note that newlines count as characters. It's either 303 or 304 characters, depending on whether you keep or remove the trailing newline. (We remove it.)

Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize ...

2026-08-03T19:46:20Z

Much of my career boils down to:

All code is liability. Minimize it.

Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more.

We’re bad at predicting the future. Avoid it.

More tests.

Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way.

Find the right thing to turn off and on again.

> > The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to ...

2026-07-31T18:31:58Z

>
> The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel

>

[– Horace Walpole](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole )

Huge, and surprising, and important: [dementia is down by almost ...

2026-07-30T21:59:25Z

Huge, and surprising, and important: [dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y!](https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/07/09/how-dementia-is-being-defeated?giftId=MzIwZTMyZWEtOWUwNi00YzViLWE1YWMtMzYwYzU0YmQyZDlj )

(Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and – news to me – the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)

every packet is an adventure

2026-07-26T05:42:36Z

every packet is an adventure

TIL: [“valley-free” ...

2026-07-25T19:18:47Z

TIL: [“valley-free” routing](https://blog.ipspace.net/2018/09/valley-free-routing/ )

Of all the themes in The Matrix, one of my favorites is ...

2026-07-15T01:04:20Z

Of all the themes in *The Matrix*, one of my favorites is [needing a land line](https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Hardline ) to call the operator and exit the Matrix.

Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking…none of it can be trusted. When you’re doing serious business, you need good old copper.

And not just any land line, either. Inevitably, they end up using *anonymous* land lines. The front desk phone in a hotel room, an aging rotary dial in an abandoned building, or the holy grail: a pay phone.

Cypherpunks. Gotta love ’em. Immaculate vibes.

Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies ...

2026-07-09T17:28:56Z

Jasper National Park, Canadian Rockies

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taking a vacation? forgot which day of the week it is? don’t ...

2026-07-07T13:24:16Z

taking a vacation? forgot which day of the week it is? don’t worry, hotel elevator’s got you

hmm, I'm seeing it fine on that mastodon.social link, and on ...

2026-06-29T16:30:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…wq4x
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hmm, I'm seeing it fine on that mastodon.social link, and on other instances like indieweb.social. you may need to be logged in; Mastodon only searches for and loads new external accounts if you're logged in.

Uh oh! The profile should definitely be visible. Does anything in ...

2026-06-29T13:43:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…zc82
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Uh oh! The profile should definitely be visible. Does anything in https://fed.brid.gy/docs#troubleshooting help?

Real-time animated dashboard of SF water and sewage flow at ...

2026-06-25T02:11:30Z

Real-time animated dashboard of SF water and sewage flow at [SFPUC](https://www.sfpuc.gov/ ) headquarters.

no no, you don’t understand, it’s not a torment nexus it’s ...

2026-06-17T18:38:02Z

no no, you don’t understand, it’s not a torment nexus

it’s just a torment fidget spinner

It’s so weird that even with this World Cup’s expanded field, ...

2026-06-16T15:55:13Z

It’s so weird that even with this World Cup’s expanded field, China and India still didn’t qualify, despite having the world’s largest populations by far.

Maybe football isn’t historically as important for them, at least within their own countries?

We were lucky to catch [Elim Chan’s debut at SF ...

2026-06-12T15:02:30Z

We were lucky to catch [Elim Chan’s debut at SF Symphony](https://www.kqed.org/arts/13990508/elim-chan-review-davies-wagner-berlioz-debussy-san-francisco-symphony ) last Fri after she was named the next music director, and it was really special. She conducted La Mer, one of my favorite orchestral pieces, and one I’ve probably heard them play a dozen times. She said she felt humbled and grateful at taking on the role, and she exuded a really direct, open, youthful energy.

She also conducted Sascha Cooke, a long time collaborator of MTT’s, and they had a pretty emotional passing-the-torch moment in his memory. Everyone felt his presence, and his blessing, so strongly.

No one can replace MTT, of course, and I’m still pretty heartbroken that we couldn’t keep Esa-Pekka, but Chan seems poised to bring on a new era. Can’t wait for the 27-28 season!

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2026-06-12T14:33:11Z

The Great Supply Chain Security Paradox: “every open source lib ...

2026-06-01T17:20:37Z

The Great Supply Chain Security Paradox:

“every open source lib is getting owned! wait at least a week to patch, let other people find the supply chain breaches before you”

“AI is reversing all these patches, the window to exploit is down to just hours now, patch your shit immediately!”

… 🧐

([Credit to James Wilson and Brad Arkin](https://risky.biz/RBFEATURES23/ ). Threat intel feeds may be the answer, eg Sentinel One, Checkmarx, Socket, etc. Somehow we came full circle back around to antivirus!)

Scott Werner: [*The Wizard With the Very Defensible ...

2026-05-28T16:41:23Z

Scott Werner: [*The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond*](https://worksonmymachine.ai/p/the-wizard-with-the-very-defensible )

>
> There was once a wizard who lived beside a pond. It was a small pond. The sort of pond that probably gets called a “water feature” on a Zillow listing by a real estate agent who really knows their euphemisms…

>

And I'm done! Back on the sauce, feels good man

2026-05-15T17:31:12Z

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And I'm done! Back on the sauce, feels good man

posted my full archive: ...

2026-05-13T22:54:37Z

My Google account is heaven@gmail (long story), so I get a steady ...

2026-05-11T23:20:01Z

My Google account is heaven@gmail (long story), so I get a steady trickle of emails from people writing to God. Some of them are real winners.

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Hmm! When I try to search for either ...

2026-05-09T15:22:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…60m2
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Hmm! When I try to search for either @[bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy](mailto:bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy ) or https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy on https://loops.video/ , it says "Something went wrong; Failed to lookup remote content." Maybe a bug? Feel free to file a Loops issue and cc me!

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2026-05-08T04:20:32Z

sometimes right, always confident

> > Consider the world’s simplest database: > ...

2026-05-05T19:41:59Z

>
> Consider the world’s simplest database:

>
<code>#!/bin/bash

db_set () {
echo "$1,$2" >> database
}

db_get () {
grep "^$1," database | sed -e "s/^$1,//" | tail -n 1
}
</code>>

– *[Designing Data-Intensive Applications](https://dataintensive.net/ )*, 2nd edition, [Martin Kleppmann](https://martin.kleppmann.com/ ) and [Chris Riccomini](https://cnr.sh/ )

I’ve been a daily coffee drinker for decades, and I’m taking ...

2026-04-30T21:41:23Z

I’ve been a daily coffee drinker for decades, and I’m taking a break for a month right now. No real reason, just trying it.

Halfway through, not much to report. One mild headache early on. No noticeable difference in energy. (I’m pretty insensitive to caffeine.)

I definitely still miss it though!

A few challenge coins: [Long Now](https://longnow.org/ ), Google ...

2026-04-15T21:59:49Z

A few challenge coins: [Long Now](https://longnow.org/ ), Google NetOps, and our family LLC.

Ellis Island stories ...

2026-04-09T20:29:28Z

Ellis Island stories

my sentiments exactly ...

2026-04-05T18:02:58Z

my sentiments exactly

In my [25+ yr career](https://snarfed.org/resume ) in (systems) ...

2026-04-03T21:55:04Z

In my [25+ yr career](https://snarfed.org/resume ) in (systems) software engineering, I can count on one hand the number of real paradigm shifts I’ve seen:

<li>Ubiquitous automated testing, eg unit tests</li>
<li>Modern network routing fabrics, which made intra-DC bandwidth effectively infinite and intra-DC latency effectively zero for most workloads, <a href="https://snarfed.org/2019-07-10_37849">Patterson notwithstanding</a></li>
<li>SSDs, which combined the speed of memory with the capacity of disk. No more counting seeks!</li>
<li>Cloud infrastructure</li>
<li>AI coding</li>

I’m not saying anything new by including AI coding here. I don’t fully know what its long term effects will be. I doubt many of us do. And the industry is obviously far from perfect.

But coming from a late adopter, and a skeptic in general, it’s still very clearly a big deal. And I don’t see those often.

> > …this produces what I will call the AI Developer’s ...

2026-04-01T05:40:51Z

>
> …this produces what I will call the AI Developer’s Descent Into Madness:

>

<li>Whoa, I produced this prototype so fast! I have super powers!</li>
<li>This prototype is getting buggy. I’ll tell the AI to fix the bugs.</li>
<li>Hmm, every change now causes as many new bugs as it fixes.</li>
<li>Aha! But if I have an AI agent also review the code, it can find its own bugs!</li>
<li>Wait, why am I personally passing data back and forth between agents</li>
<li>I need an agent framework</li>
<li>I can have my agent write an agent framework!</li>
<li>Return to step 1</li>
>
> It’s actually alarming how many friends and respected peers I’ve lost to this cycle already.

>

[Avery Pennarun, *Every layer of review makes you 10x slower*](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316 )

Best paper title I’ve seen in a long time: > > [> ...

2026-03-31T19:02:44Z

Best paper title I’ve seen in a long time:

>
> [> Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237 )

>

> > I am Springsteen, going on Spreventeen > *[– ...

2026-03-30T19:52:57Z

>
> I am Springsteen, going on Spreventeen

>

*[– Spinal Tap II: The End Continues](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20222166/ )*

> > smoke ’em if you got ’em >

2026-03-24T15:13:15Z

>
> smoke ’em if you got ’em

>

first law of thermodynamics conservation of energy 🤝 double ...

2026-03-16T00:17:01Z

first law of thermodynamics
conservation of energy
🤝
double entry bookkeeping
conservation of money

Hi everyone! Here’s your semi-regular Bridgy Fed status update. ...

2026-03-04T02:14:20Z

Hi everyone! Here’s your semi-regular Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been busy [since last time](https://snarfed.org/2026-01-04_56304 )!

The two big new features we launched were [domain blocklists](https://blog.anew.social/launch-domain-blocklists/ ) ([GitHub](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2194 )) and [responding to unbridged users](https://blog.anew.social/launch-interact-with-unbridged-replies-mentions/ ) ([GitHub](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2042 )). We’ve seen good feedback and usage on both, especially responding to unbridged users. Please keep the feedback coming!

We also significantly improved bridging speed, especially to Bluesky. For a couple months, it slowed down to an average delay of 3-5 minutes, with outliers that took so long that we occasionally dropped them entirely. Not good. [We worked hard to optimize](https://github.com/snarfed/arroba/issues/74 ) and managed to cut that average delay down to just 5-10 seconds, which feels way better.

We shipped a bunch of smaller stuff too:

<li>Bluesky <a href="https://standard.site/">standard.site</a>; <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2324">support</a>; (still rolling out)</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2136">Improve pinned posts</a>, notably when they were pinned before a user enabled the bridge</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2091">Fediverse: use Article <code>preview</code> field</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2284">Web UI: add buttons to unblock domain blocklists in settings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2296">Web UI: bug fix for raw HTML appearing in some warning messages</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2338">bug fix for linking @-mentions of unbridged fediverse users</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2316">bug fix for Webfinger XRD output</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2327">Misc</a>; <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2367">reliability</a>; <a href="https://github.com/snarfed/arroba/issues/75">improvements</a>; to our ATProto firehose server and client</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2060">Unfollowed everyone from the @ap.brid.gy Bluesky bot account</a>. Its large number of follows (65k+) had unintentionally landed it on a handful of “follows too many people” automated blocklists.</li>

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It’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.

(Not that VCs are all dumb, or delusional, or malicious! Far from it. But still.)

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2026-03-02T22:10:26Z

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2026-03-01T02:17:13Z

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"I'm writing Python and using the cloud, how is this happening"

I know it’s a bad (good) day when debugging takes me [all the ...

2026-02-26T23:24:56Z

I know it’s a bad (good) day when debugging takes me [all the way down into the Linux kernel docs](https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2367#issuecomment-3969792063 )

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separate the art from the artist

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